That typically includes theft and vandalism due to looting after storms, notes the Insurance Information Institute.
Take "reasonable" steps to protect your property from additional damage, says Insurance Information Institute, a trade group.
However, the main bone of contention between the chambers is the proposed limits on lawsuits, says Robert Hartwig at the Insurance Information Institute.
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Include water, non-perishable food items, medicine, battery-powered flashlights and radios, vital documents including insurance information, and other necessary items to help you through an emergency.
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The Deutsche Bank estimate echoes preliminary speculation from the Insurance Information Institute that U.S. and non-Japanese insurers could escape the Japanese earthquake with limited damage.
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Most claims will settle in the next few months, but many will not close for years, or even decades, says Robert Hartwig at the Insurance Information Institute.
In 1996, a not highly visible section of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Information and Portability Act) attempted to simplify and standardize the administration of health care payment.
"The choice of car is a major cost-driver in terms of what you're going to pay" for insurance, says Jeanne Salvatore, a spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute.
Besides education and health care, insurance is another reliable industry, says Robert Hartwig, an economist and president of the Insurance Information Institute, a trade group based in New York.
Insurance adjusters are dispersing to help victims file claims in the aftermath of killer storms in the Midwest and South this week, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
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It often takes a major loss for people to recognize the importance of having home insurance policies that offer broad protections, says Tully Lehman, a spokesperson for the Insurance Information Network of California.
Fidelity National Financial competes with First American Financial (FAF) and Old Republic International (ORI) in the title insurance and mortgage services sector, and with Stewart Information Services (STC) in the insurance information services business.
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Robert Hartwig at the Insurance Information Institute in New York thinks that too much would be at stake for European governments to remain passive were one of their large insurers or reinsurers to go bust.
Robert Hartwig, president of the industry-backed Insurance Information Institute in New York, said insurers may have sold policies cheaply to attract customers to more profitable auto and life insurance, and regulators may have been unfairly holding prices down in some states.
If you've made a significant health change say, you quit smoking, lowered your cholesterol or lost weight and have maintained it for more than a year, consider re-evaluating your current premiums, says Steven Weisbart, chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute in New York.
In New York foreign investors mainly help to fuel the finance, insurance and information sectors, according to a new report by the Partnership for New York City, a business group.
Currently, very few businesses or insurance companies request genetic information, but this could change in the future.
You can get detailed information on insurance companies about things like financial stability, payout policies and satisfaction ratings from J.
Completing the Orwellian circle, the proposed system also interacts with servers in the FDA and health insurance companies to gain information about specific food products or policy changes.
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To win approval of their merger, Travelers and Citicorp had to promise regulators that customers could delete their names from the firm's internal marketing lists, and that Travelers would not share insurance customers' medical information with the bank.
It may well not be in someone's interest, however, for his employer or insurance company to have that information.
This eight-year-old service offers its own credit, auto and insurance scores based on the information in your credit report and its own formulas.
The viewer can access extras like director commentary, car information, and insurance damage estimates at any time while the movie continues to play.
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He cites another possible example, in which an advertising company purchases a credit bureau, which then sells that information to an insurance Web site.
Wendell Potter, a former insurance company communications executive, told CNN that the insurance industry deliberately spreads false information with the goal of disrupting the debate.
Recent mishaps have drawn attention to how companies protect personal information, especially if they sell this information on to insurance firms, law enforcement agencies and possible employers.
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Principal filed a lawsuit in 2010 stating that Locker had provided misleading financial information on his insurance application and failed to cancel another insurance policy he held with another insurer.
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That technology is getting cheaper, the data are getting more reliable, and some car companies are starting to offer insurers access to their onboard-telematics systems to harvest driving information to tailor insurance premiums to an individual's behavior.
If after gathering all of that information you are brave enough to send it off through the mail, the packet that you get back will simply summarize your credit rating, with absolutely no information about your insurance score.
Experts also recommend storing bank records, important contact information for creditors and insurance companies, as well as copies of social security cards and drivers licenses in a safe, second location.
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